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by overgard 8mo ago
My feeling is that the code it generates is locally ok, but globally kind of bad. What I mean is, in a diff it looks ok. But when you start comparing it to the surrounding code, there's a pretty big lack of coherency and it'll hap
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm early in my search, but compensation seems all over the place. From the recruiters I've talked to they've been pretty baffled too about compensation given the market. I know one place a recruiter called me about was looki
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't agree with the headline of "we're all AI engineers now", but I do agree that AI is more of a multiplier than anything. If you know what you're doing, you go faster, if you don't, you're just making
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by overgard 8mo ago
Just vibe code it yourself! </s>
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by overgard 8mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the people that got laid off were the ones that deserved it. Obviously politics, situational factors (wanting people back in the office), etc are a huge part (I myself am recently laid off and I don&#
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm an outsider, but VC looks like it's in a bad place right now. The returns have been pretty bad this decade, and AI companies are eating all the dollars so if you're not doing that it strikes me it'd be hard to get fu
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by overgard 8mo ago
I know people will say AI, but I don't think it's that. The whole "everyone should learn to code" bullshit of the last 15 years or so has created a lot of developers that frankly aren't very good, and then you mix i
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by overgard 8mo ago
If that ever happens to "ls" I'm tossing my computer out the window
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by overgard 8mo ago
It's probably on the script they've been given
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't see what's non-sensical. The point of this technology, to many of the super wealthy, is to commoditize white collar skills and drive the price to zero. They're not really coy about this, if anything they won't st
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by overgard 8mo ago
Look at the marketing. It's focused on unskilled people.
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by overgard 8mo ago
Not really. The "means of production" in software has basically been free (other than the cost of a computer) for like 20+ years.
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by overgard 8mo ago
I saw a quote today that resonated with me: "The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. --@jeffowski" While I don't think that's the onl
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by overgard 8mo ago
I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spic
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by overgard 8mo ago
I think I'm more getting at the spirit of open source/free software, which is of social reciprocity. I think it's kind of ugly to train on programmers work with the explicit goal of putting those programmers out of work. (And
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by overgard 8mo ago
I dunno, is a free trial really a gift? Especially if the thing they're trialing is built off the data you're giving them? To be fair it does have a pretty significant monetary value (which can't be transferred..), but person
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by overgard 8mo ago
I think that typescript is a language uniquely suited to LLMs though: - It's garbage collected, so variable lifetimes don't need to be traced - It's structurally typed, so LLMs can get away with duplicating types as lon
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't think their core safety promise was something they could ever fulfill. As long as what we're calling AI is generative LLMs then alignment has fundamental tensions: the more guardrails you put in place, the less useful the
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by overgard 8mo ago
> Focusing on Dario, his exact quote IIRC was "50% of all white collar jobs in 5 years" which is still a ways off, but to check his track record, his prediction on coding was only off by a month or so. If you revisit what he ac
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by overgard 8mo ago
Using LLMs for weapons is a grave misunderstanding of what LLMs are actually good for. These are things that should NEVER be in charge of life or death decisions.
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by overgard 8mo ago
I think playing with the API's is something I'd encourage people excited about these technologies to do. I think it'll lead to the "magic" wearing off but more appreciation for what they actually can accomplish.
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by overgard 8mo ago
True of AGI, but what we have right now doesn't fit that bill. (I would encourage people that disagree with this to go talk to ChatGPT about how LLMs and reasoning models work. Seriously! I'm not being snarky. It's very good
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by overgard 8mo ago
Younger people might not realize or remember this, but when GMail came out it was HUGE. Like, I remember it was invite-only for a while and getting an invite was a really big deal. In retrospect that was some genius marketing by them (also
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by overgard 8mo ago
I imagine the stickiest customers would be large enterprises. You aren't going to get the evangelists to stick on a single model provider, so their best bet is probably employees who are going to have their choices dictated to them by
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by overgard 8mo ago
I mean, Microsoft is already using WebView and web technologies in Windows at this point. I agree electron is inefficient, but it's not particularly egregious when compared to what they're already doing
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by overgard 8mo ago
On one hand, I don't feel strongly about this because I literally never use these builtin Windows tools. I can't help but think it'd just make more sense to include VSCode builtin though. It's already very good and has a
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by overgard 8mo ago
Well, you could also use it to buy a pizza and find out it that your pizza cost a billion dollars a few years later.
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by overgard 8mo ago
IMO, any (important) writing you expect other humans to consume should be your own writing. I think it's kind of disrespectful to outsource your voice to AI but expect people to read it like it's yours. Why should I put in time to
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by overgard 8mo ago
It seems like a temp ban here would be totally reasonable, like, "we disabled your account for a day here's why, don't do it again". Permanent though, eek!
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by overgard 8mo ago
The tool thing is kind of infuriating at the moment. I've been using Claude on the command line so I can use my subscription. It's fine, but it also feels kind of silly, like I'm looking at ccusage and it seems like I'm

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